FATHER MARTIN AND SAMWISE GANGEE – 9/10 – Like Pennywise the clown, he emerges 23 years later in the filthy rain of Clogland and causes half the ground to disappear down the drains with Feyenoord’s Euro hopes in a flood of hooped wickedness. “Calm doon, Da’!” Sean Pertwee would holler through the veils as the venerable Martin bounded around – and out of – his technical area, seeking a belated and reprised crowning win to bring the curtain down on his managerial career. And with a tactical setup purely his own he repeated the Netherlands wonderland scoreline of nearly a quarter a century ago, this time in the city we stole the King Of Kings from. But there was no theft tonight, just a well-deserved finale for another living Celtic legend.
MIBBERY – 3/10 – Extraordinarily well-officiated event, including the often-mindboggling (cough, cough, Braga…) VAR monkeys getting decisions logically and sensibly accurate, meaning no unethical damage was done, even though the bedraggled ref amused himself in the rain by chucking around yellows at us for a while.
OVERALL – 9/10 – Performance of the season. Doom-laden after ten minutes as they threw everything at us – rockets, mortars, guided-windmills, their flaming dreich weather; RVP even ended up chucking his own weans at us…We survived. And thrived. Intensity, guts, sharp interplay, dedicated teamwork and focussed aggression got us back into the game, carried us through the game, and won us the game.
A marvellous Euro curtain-call for the unlikely but likeable duo that is MON and SOM (Sean O’Maloney…). And that way MON glances back to the dugout to his diminutive acolyte – like Jim Kerr looking round and Charlie Burchill’s there; we’ll miss that. We need that. All round. Here’s to more of that camaraderie, in future, in whatever form it takes.
It’s essential to Celtic’s success.
Go Away Now
Sandman
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Let Wilfried wait till May.
MON &SM getting a tune out of the squad.
Cal Mac who I had given up on back at his best.
Treble on if the Temps stay.
Wilfried’s imminent arrival a concern.
Great support from the travellers last evening.👏👏👏
Hail hail
Had B.R. still been around , we would have played a 4-3-3 and got “Humped” , by a verry good team . Change of formation (extra men in mid-field) allowed our creative players to excel . Engels , Hetate , McCowan McGregor all showed how they can play when they are not outnumbered in mid-field . Instead of chasing shadows they were running the game —Something the most discerning fans have been calling-out for seasons .
Well done MON & staff .
Can we just keep MON & Maloney? At the very least please promote MON to the new post of Director of Football. This move would demonstrate the board have learned lessons and are now starting to take the club in the right direction. No club can afford to let a man of MON’s calibre just walk away.